Heroes and feats

Medical staff and convalescents of the triage evacuation hospital No. 359 Chkalov (now Orenburg) (in the center is Vasily Pavlovich Shakhov, the chief surgeon of the hospital)

Medical Company doctors of the 47th Separate Brigade of the 1st Tkachev Strike Army - Tkacheva Anna (left) and Zinaida Shuvatkina before being sent to the front near Moscow.

I.I. Klykova – Komsomol organiser of the 1st Company of the 70th separate Surveillance, Alert and Communications Battalion of the Stalingrad Red Banner Air Defence Corps with a group of sanitary squads.

Soldiers of the 103rd separate Air Warning and Communications Battalion of the 84th Division of the Stalingrad Front, formed in early 1942 from volunteer young women from Chkalov (now Orenburg) Region (Poznan, Poland).

Besedina Maria Andreyevna – squaddy, surgical nurse at the Mobile Surgical Field Hospital No. 5253 of the 4th Guards Tank Army.

Tatyana Gromova, Guards Senior Sergeant from the 95th Guards Rifle Division (portrait). Prague, Czechoslovakia.

A.I. Tkacheva – Coordinating surgeon of the Surgical Field Mobile Hospital No. 4368, Captain of the Medical Service

I.I. Klykov is the Komsomol organiser of the 1st Company of the 70th separate Surveillance, Alert and Communications Battalion of the Stalingrad Red Banner Air Defence Corps.

I.I. Klykov is the Komsomol organiser of the 1st Company of the 70th separate Air Surveillance, Alert and Communications Battalion of the Stalingrad Red Banner Air Defence Corps with the same militia in Romania.

Servicemen of the 103rd separate Air Surveillance, Alert and Communications Battalion of the 62nd Army.

Throughout the war S.V. Selepukhin fought on the 1st and 2nd Belarusian fronts, was awarded the Order of the Red Star and the Medal "For the Victory over Germany".

Bezuglaya Anna Fedorovna was born in 1921, drafted into the army in 1941 by the Barnaul military enlistment office. He participated in the liberation of China from the Japanese imperialists as part of the 105th medical battalion of the Second Far Eastern Front as a senior operating nurse, a medical service lieutenant. She was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree, medals "For Military Merit", "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", "For the Victory over Japan", jubilee medals. She was demobilized from the army in 1945.

Throughout the war S.V. Selepukhin fought on the 1st and 2nd Belarusian fronts, was awarded the Order of the Red Star and the Medal "For the Victory over Germany".

Zhuravlev Yuri Ivanovich Zhuravlev Yuri Ivanovich - sergeant, crew commander of the 23rd reserve rifle regiment. Was called up by the Pushkin regional military commissariat in January 1943, awarded the Order of "Red Star", the Order of "Patriotic War I degree", the medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945".

Throughout the siege of Leningrad, the building of St. Isaac's Cathedral was the main repository of funds created by order of the Leningrad City Council on July 15, 1941 of the "United Museum Economy". Numerous works of art from the collections of the city's museums and suburban palaces-museums were kept here. In the most difficult conditions of the harsh days of the blockade, often at the cost of their own lives, the museum staff managed to save a piece of our country's cultural heritage for posterity. Their professionalism, intense work and personal courage are forever inscribed in the annals of the St. Isaac's Cathedral State Memorial Museum.